A cheating wife tried to recruit an assassin to kill her husband and make it look like an ISIS execution so she could be with her secret lover.

Nurten Taycur, 28, offered to pay a contract killer her £5,000 life savings to slice the throat of Uber driver Ercan Akan.

She asked the hitman to spray the words 'ISIS' on the roof of his car in a bid to throw police off the scent - and even texted him to tell him: "I'm so excited."

She also agreed to help track her husband using the Find My iPhone app - unaware that all the time she was actually talking to an undercover police officer.

Taycur was arrested after handing over a £1,000 deposit to the bogus hitman and told him: "I don't want him to survive."

Her husband later told police he didn't think there were any problems with the marriage and added: "I still don't understand why Nurten wanted me to be killed - if she wanted to separate from me she could have done it in the normal way."

Taycur came to the UK with her family as a child and was only 16 when she married her husband, who came from the same Kurdish village in Turkey, the Old Bailey heard.